Vision Quotes - Page 43

oh how television diminishes everything.

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really my image, they're always the photographer's vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.

Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart

I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.